An amendment to a Senate bill would protect an industrial company from getting sued if its plans to put carbon emissions underground goes awry.

A pilot project to store carbon dioxide emissions underground has gotten the green light from the governor.

Gov. Eric Holcomb has signed a bill allowing a company to go ahead with plans for potentially storing 50 million metric tons of carbon dioxide underground near Terre Haute.

The carbon dioxide storage is part of a $450 million plan to build an anhydrous ammonia fertilizer plant near Terre Haute.

The bill approved by lawmakers last month restricts such carbon storage in Indiana to a pilot site near Terre Haute and calls for a special legislative committee to review the process.

A recent study including Purdue University researchers finds forests are an efficient way to capture and store carbon but with limits.

A bill working its way through the state Senate would make it easier for companies to store carbon dioxide underground.

The study updates the social cost of carbon, which previously relied on some data from the 1980s.

The goal of the project is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions - the primary pollutant behind man-made climate change.